C40 Nanxiong Sijie

The competition between the outer and inner disciples was like the clouds and mud compared to the competition between the elite disciples. If it was the competition between the elite disciples, then looking at the competition between the outer and inner disciples, it would be boring.

Many of the older disciples realized that this year's elite disciples' martial competition was very different from last year's. Last year, there were only three hundred elite disciples, and out of these three hundred people, only a few were in the upper realm. This year, however, there were six hundred and twenty.

This year, only a few of the new disciples were at the Spirit Reality Realm, while the rest were at the Upper Truth Realm. This was the complete opposite of last year's elite disciples.

Half a year ago, when the recruitment had just ended, the senior executives of the Greencloud Sword Sect were both excited and embarrassed by this result. The only thing they were excited about was the fact that the strength of the sect as a whole would rapidly increase after recruiting nearly three hundred upper stage disciples.

According to the rules of the Qing-Yun Sword Sect, all three hundred true disciples would have to enter into the legacy disciples. This way, the number of disciples under each of the ten Elders would be increased to forty, while the number of elite disciples would be in a small team of thirty people, with each team being a single elder.

In contrast, true disciples couldn't get much guidance from others. The inner and outer disciples faced the same problem.

The senior executives of the Greencloud Sword Sect considered that this situation must be changed. If they could not get the same treatment for those of the same cultivation level, the outer sect disciples and the elite disciples of the True realm would be dissatisfied. This way, the sect's development would be severely affected.

Of the 620 people, only the top 10 would be able to enter into the Successor Disciples, and there were more than 200 of the Divine Reality Realm's elite disciples who had no hope of entering into the Successor Disciples. With this, the remaining four hundred people began to fiercely fight for these ten slots.

From the start of the match, the fight between the two arenas became intense because it was a knockout battle. If one lost the match, one would lose the chance forever.

As a result, the vast majority of the disciples began to attack with all they had. They basically didn't defend anymore, completely exchanging blows with each other. These people often fought until their bodies were covered in wounds. In the end, they had just won one match when they were eliminated in the next.

On the two arenas, cruel battles were taking place at all times. From time to time, someone's body would be splattered with blood, and even their blue robes would be dyed red. Silver, green, blue, red and yellow, these five colors flowed in all directions.

Soon, it was Nan Rong Lin's turn to go up on stage. He and Number 14 went up at the same time, and his opponent was a disciple at the early stage of the Divine True Realm, which was a huge gap between them and Nan Rong Lin. This disciple went up and used the method of exchanging blows with wounds, but in front of absolute strength, everything was futile.

After half an hour, Duanmu Yunxiao appeared on the stage. His opponent was also at the peak of the middle stage of the truth realm, and the two of them were on equal footing as they began an intense battle. Duanmu cultivated the family's inherited God-tier Art of Breaking the Heavens, while Duanmu cultivated the Heaven Breaking Sword Technique that matched his swordsmanship.

On the tip of the sword, a half foot long, silver white sword Qi was constantly expanding and contracting. It looked as if it could leave the sword's body at any time and fly out at any moment. One could tell that Duanmu Xiaoyun had also cultivated to the level of True Essence Transforming Sword Qi.

His opponent's realm was the same as his, but it was still far from reaching the true essence sword qi. Although he was practicing fire attribute, he should have been able to completely overcome it, but his true essence was still not strong enough to burn gold.

The entire battling platform was encompassed by a silvery white sword light. The opponent was forced to the edge of the battling platform. Duanmu Xiao Yun pressed closer and used Golden Meteor, thrusting his sword at the opponent.

Unexpectedly, there was a tiny silver light shooting out from the tip of the sword. It instantly pierced through the opponent's left shoulder, and under a strong inertia, the sword fell off the stage.

He did not expect Duanmu Xiaoyun to break through to the point that the sword Qi left his body on the battling platform. After reaching the Immortal Truth Realm, he would no longer use this method as his cultivation level got higher and higher.

Because it consumed too much true energy when the sword Qi left his body, Duanmu Xiao Yun would run out of true energy after just two or three tries. The stronger the expert, the less he would use it.

He Tianyun's opponent was at the early stage of the Upper Realm, one level lower than him. The battle between the two was also very exciting, and it caused many outer and inner disciples to clap and cheer.

His opponent also practiced a fire attribute cultivation technique, which happened to be the opposite of He Tianyun's water attribute. In the entire martial stage, blue and red rays of light interweaved.

As the two swords clashed, a clear and melodious sound of metal clashing could be heard from time to time on the stage. The two swords were annihilated at the same time, and in an instant, it became bright and dazzling again.

At the end, He Tianyun used the Tempest Strike on the shore. The blue light blasted his opponent off the stage like a tidal wave.

He Tianyun's Trembling Waves was similar to Lu Qingfeng's Trembling Waves. However, He Tianyun had yet to reach the boundary where his sword qi would leave his body. So when he used it, the power was lacking.

Zhu Youcai's opponent was the same as Lin Nan's opponent, they were both Divine True Realm disciples, there was a huge difference in their cultivation levels. Zhu Youcai easily defeated his opponent and easily won the first round of the competition. "Hahahaha …" "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…

There was only one round of competition for the elite disciples every day. The sect naturally had a reason for doing this. The first was to allow all the elite disciples sufficient time to recover, so that they could be on stage and compete at their peak condition. Second, they could have more time to let the outer and inner disciples absorb the fruits of their observation.

The battles of the elite disciples continued for a total of seven rounds until there were only five people left on each stage. In the second round and the fourth round, there was a gap of one person on each stage. And then, from the three hundred and ten people that had been eliminated in the first round, the final ten disciples had been decided.

Lu Qingfeng was very concerned about the sparring between the four of them, but no matter how much he cared, it was useless. Therefore, he decided to not go to the square for the next six days as he still had something important to do.

A few days before the competition, Lu Qingfeng had once gone to the Scripture Tower. The reason he wanted to go was because the first time he went, he saw a 'Do Not Enter' sign placed on the side of the stairs leading to the sixth floor.

Afterwards, he asked Xu Ru Jun about it and found out from his master that in order to enter the sixth level, one must spend 10,000 crystals. After entering, one could choose any cultivation technique, martial skill or secret technique.

Lu Qingfeng had selected a secret technique from the sixth floor of the Scripture Tower. The secret technique was called "Deity Smiting Technique", and after buying it, the competition had begun, and he had not had the time to read it for a long time. Now, he had six days to study it, so he might be able to use it during the competition.

He took out the jade slip containing this secret technique from his storage ring and immersed his consciousness into it, carefully analyzing it. This is a soul attack technique, a total of three moves. The first technique, Spirit Perception, required a thousandth of one's soul power to condense it into a Soul Needle and swiftly pierce into the opponent's Niwan Palace before exploding.

In terms of secret arts, if an opponent of the same cultivation level were to use this technique, the opponent would be absent-minded for five seconds. Five seconds of time was enough to kill the opponent over a hundred times. Moreover, the amount of soul force needed to kill the opponent was already negligible to Lu Qingfeng.

The second technique was called Soul Restraint, drawing out one-thousandth of the soul power, condensing it into a ball and shooting it into the opponent's Niwan Palace, and then using the corresponding incantation, the exploding ball quickly formed a soul net, under the control of the user, the soul net instantly tightened, trapping the opponent's soul inside the net. The caster forcibly pulled out of the Niwan Palace, causing the opponent's body to be left with only a soulless shell.

The final move was called 'Annihilation', and it was also the most powerful move. However, the price paid was also extremely great. One could not use it unless they were in a life or death situation.

The specific method to display this was to extract a tenth of one's own soul force and condense it into a Soul Extinguisher Sword. This sword was wrapped in metal-attribute true essence and it shot into the opponent's Niwan Palace and then exploded, turning the metal-attribute true essence into trillions of Soul Extinguisher Swords, completely strangling the opponent's soul.

The final move, Annihilation, required one to pay a tenth of one's soul. This kind of price was too huge, and after using it, Lu Qingfeng, with his current cultivation, would instantly fall into a coma and would need at least ten months to awaken.

After understanding the situation. Lu Qingfeng began to cultivate. His mind entered his Niwan Palace and he carefully extracted 1/10,000 of his soul force. Under the subtle control of his soul force, it slowly compressed and formed the shape of a needle.

The purpose of this action was to continuously shorten the time needed to condense the pill. Only after it was instantly condensed and shot into the opponent's Niwan Palace could one be considered to have succeeded.

There were no shortcuts to this kind of training, only constant practice. This was the result of practice and practice. After two days of non-stop training, he had finally reached the level where he could launch moves with a single thought.

In just three days of time, he had reached a very skilled level, one day less than his original plan. In this way, he could also see the last round of martial arts competitions in the first half of the elite disciples.

On the morning of the sixth day, Lu Qingfeng had finished his training and walked out of the cave. He came to the edge of the square and looked inside, only to see that there was only one fighting stage left. Below the fighting stage, twenty elite disciples were waiting there.

The battling platform was so crowded that not even a drop of water could trickle through. Lu Qingfeng could only use his spiritual sense to scan the area and find that all four people were present. This made him feel a lot more at ease.

After the results of the draw, the four were extremely lucky that they were not assigned to the same group. This also prevented them from feeling awkward when meeting each other.

Duanmu Baiyun had drawn number 1 and had already ascended the battling platform. Soon, he was engaged by his opponent. Duanmu Xiaoyun's longsword was known as the Heavenly Dipper Sword. When paired with the Metal-type Heaven Breaking Sword Manual, its power instantly multiplied.

His opponent was a fire element disciple, and on the entire martial stage, there was once again a scene of fire and silver light interweaving, just that this time it was much more intense than the first round. Obviously, his opponent was able to make it all the way to the last round, and was definitely not someone with an ordinary cultivation.

Duanmu Xiaoyun had fought very hard in the last round. After more than eighty rounds, there was still no clear victor. Although he did not use a massive amount of Quintessential Essence, there was still not much Quintessential Essence left in him after such a long period of time. Looking back at the other party's condition, he was in a worse state than Duanmu Baiyun. It seemed that he was about to reach the limit that he could endure.

In the end, Duanmu Xiaoyun had no choice but to use the strongest move of the Heaven Breaking Sword Art, called the Seven Stars Splitting Slash. It was also thanks to him breaking through the boundary of the Sword Qi in the first round, otherwise, he would not have been able to use this move.

Duanmu Xiaoyun raised his longsword high up as true essence constantly poured into it. The sword instantly glowed with a dazzling silvery white light. If one were to observe carefully, one would notice that within the silver light, there were seven brighter points of light. These seven spots of light were rushing towards the sword's tip at an astonishing speed.

With the swing of the longsword, the seven light spots rushed out of the sword and went straight for the upper, middle, and lower dantian of the sword, as well as the shoulders and knees of the opponent.

Sensing that danger was approaching, the opponent hastily twisted his body to the side in an attempt to dodge the fatal blow. However, he was still a step too slow. Both his left shoulder and right leg had been penetrated by a dot of light.

Duanmu Xiaoyun's face was drained of all color, and he even staggered. The other party was in an even more miserable state than him. He knelt on one knee and was no longer able to move.

For the following matches, it was exceptionally difficult for Lin Ming, He Tianyun, and Zhu Youcai to fight.